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Skye, Dun Mor, Struanmore
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2700
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2700 (2700)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bracadale
- National Grid reference
- NG 3399 3905
- Latitude
- 57.36404
- Longitude
- -6.42562
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Footprint
- 0.33 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Earthwork Survey (1921); Other (1961); Other (1963); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 918
- HER
- Highland HER MHG6662
- National record
- record NG 33 NW 4; monument 11063
- Wikidata
- Q31099127
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1928) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Ninth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles. HMSO: Edinburgh